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Lauren Balik

@laurenbalik

Data Wrangler. Investor. Bearish on most things.

Human capital, infrastructure, SaaS.

Writing things here: https://t.co/9Edqal5SsL

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Many moons ago I was solicited to audition for The Onion after I graduated college. It was chaotic!

This amazing newspaper of good writing, in the pre-internet and Web 1.0 era became okay in Web 2.0, then just okay in Web 2.5 just as I was auditioning. They decided not to go…

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Joe Hovde Benn Stancil Benn can decide whether Snowflake and its consumption is good or bad, whatever he thinks that week, and send this out to thousands of people.

He does this on Fridays, several hours before millions of dollars bet on Snowflake's stock price expire, every week.

If Benn screams…

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Hi Benn Stancil Benn Stancil, how can we front run your weekly Friday Snowflake $SNOW keyword-laden, sentiment-seeding blog you send out to thousands of people? Will Benn kill the Modern Data Stack again? Bring it back again? Call Snowflake dead? Up, down, up, down.

Give us a…

Hi Benn Stancil @bennstancil, how can we front run your weekly Friday Snowflake $SNOW keyword-laden, sentiment-seeding blog you send out to thousands of people? Will Benn kill the Modern Data Stack again? Bring it back again? Call Snowflake dead? Up, down, up, down. Give us a…
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Let's look at ⚡️some more data⚡️ about Benn Stancil, who positions himself as a progressive.

👉This time, we're looking at court documents from a woman who was terminated from Mode, who claims she was not paid what she was owed for about a year.

We can follow along with this…

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This is a lesson. This is what AI grifting looks like, from Benn Stancil Benn Stancil.

Complete word salad, no coherent thoughts, schizophrenic, shaking and scratching face, speaking 80 MPH.

This is one of Snowflake's $SNOW biggest Data Influencers.

youtu.be/K8qnn4tFyHU?t=…

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I really enjoy, Benn Stancil, how a bunch of your minority employees at Mode seem to say things like 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' in Glassdoor reviews about Mode management (aka you) and how they get fired first and you still act like a shithead and play pretend progressive, like…

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I really enjoy Benn Stancil and his brother Will's constant moral crusading about progressive this and 'equal opportunities' that.

⚡️Let's look at some more data.⚡️

Now, Benn's 1 of 3 cofounders of Mode, the Chief Whatever Officer, and a leader in the org. Right at the top.…

I really enjoy Benn Stancil and his brother Will's constant moral crusading about progressive this and 'equal opportunities' that. ⚡️Let's look at some more data.⚡️ Now, Benn's 1 of 3 cofounders of Mode, the Chief Whatever Officer, and a leader in the org. Right at the top.…
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Does Data Influencer Benn Stancil Benn Stancil actually speak Chinese?

Did he do a single thing at his fellowship, endowment, or even at Yammer working for David Sacks David Sacks?

Did he even do anything as a 'cofounder' at Mode or did his other cofounders/employees do…

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Benn, put down the bottle/Adderall. You can be an 'edgelord' on the internet all you want, yet...

I asked 2 questions.

1) To Will Will Stancil: How much did Mr. and Mrs. Stancil give to Wake Forest?

Will is clearly an idiot who race-baits actual racists on the internet to…

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I really love these lunatics like Benn Stancil (Benn Stancil) who do nothing but:

-Promote data, data, data + AI, which is really just web scraping + some light algos and classifiers on top

-Write and post nonsense nonstop

-Get 'offended' when the very thing they promote,…

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Genuine question for the Stancils, Will and Benn:

How much did your dad, Mr. Stancil, pay through the backdoor for you both to attend Wake Forest University?

Will - it seems in poor taste for you, a budding politician, to be commenting again and again on college politics and…

Genuine question for the Stancils, Will and Benn: How much did your dad, Mr. Stancil, pay through the backdoor for you both to attend Wake Forest University? Will - it seems in poor taste for you, a budding politician, to be commenting again and again on college politics and…
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This matches my experience as well! In fact, a lot of this whole SQL Copilot stuff (not just at Snowflake $SNOW, but across the board) still seems years off.

If I'm mistaken and some text-to-SQL or AI-assisted SQL copilot solution person wishes to pitch their solution or lead me…

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Snowflake is the funniest and most ridiculous company of all time. $SNOW Why would anyone own this stock?

Here's Mike Speiser at Sutter Hill videoing into 2021's Snowflake Startup Challenge.

This is how deranged these Snowflake VCs are.

Someone at Snowflake turned a TV…

Snowflake is the funniest and most ridiculous company of all time. $SNOW Why would anyone own this stock? Here's Mike Speiser at Sutter Hill videoing into 2021's Snowflake Startup Challenge. This is how deranged these Snowflake VCs are. Someone at Snowflake turned a TV…
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Soren is an all-timer at TOS/data privacy policies.

Outside of lawyers and procurements folks, he's the only person I've ever who also reads data company TOS/privacy policies for fun 🚀

...and I don't think the lawyers or procurements read them for fun, it's their job.

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Serious Q: Where do folks think all the 'revenue enrichment' features come from in their:

-hedge fund alt data feeds
-sales rep firmographic tools/lead prospecting tools
-ZoomInfo and such

Example:

You're a sales rep and your pipeline is getting dry and you want to fish a bit…

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